"I grew up a full-fledged card carrying member of the KISS Army. I refused to listen to any band that was not covered in clown white facepaint. Then KISS went disco and i decided to bail out and give all the other bands in the world a listen... My brothers were much older than me so I spent my childhood in a suburb of Rochester, NY being force fed Foreigner, Kansas, Boston and Styx. Mullet Rock Fast forward to high school and I'm cutting my teeth in bars as a drummer in a heavy metal band.